2024 Paris Olympics

[Pushka]

Having volunteered for Sydney 2000 and Melbourne Comm Games 2006 (where I was also in the Closing Ceremony) will certainly watch Opening and Closing ceremonies......but not live at 2.30am tomorrow
Also a local girl is in the boxing, so will watch that.

I see Celine Dion is preparing a duet with Lady Gaga. Celine hasn't performed since 2019. I'd love to see it live but likely the replay will somehow butcher it.

 

[Xrayspice]

Maybe

Depends on the “Olympic Effect”

Will people In Europe keep flying or will there be a stay home effect meaning planes and vacant hotel rooms are hard to fill ?


When I last looked airfares in the second week were fair and hotel pricing had come down from their ridiculous highs it was still Around double normal times instead of the quadruple / tenfold

Once the swimming and athletics programs are over, people leave town

Isn’t swimming at the start, and athletics at the end?

 

[CaptJCool]

Here’s the calendar




So yes
More a follow on

However, the team based sports also reach end of rounds, QFs, then Semi-finals so as teams drop out they are finished in the competitions

 

[Flyfrequently]

I see Celine Dion is preparing a duet with Lady Gaga. Celine hasn't performed since 2019. I'd love to see it live but likely the replay will somehow butcher it.

Looking forward to the duet, I will admit to "concert envy" when @Drakecula saw Lady Gaga in Vegas.
I did see Celine at Crown Palladium Melbourne in 1998, pretty impressive back then.

 

[Happy Dude]

Track cycling, even those strange points races where it's impossible to know what's going on.

Womens 1500m getting buzz as the match up of the track meet. And the Titmus/Ledecky/(young Canadian?) in the 400m free will be epic.

 

[CaptJCool]

On the way

 

[Pushka]

Paris is such a beautiful city in its own right and i found the parts i watched - later in the event, to be spectacular. It was certainly a little different though. Almost chaotic in fact.

The athletes looked sodden. Hope those that are competing the next day don't suffer consequences.

While it's a highlight for the athletes they must reduce the length of that 'parade'.......we didn't watch it but listened on the radio until the action started.

Not sure about the cauldron.

 

[Blinky]

Despite the unrelenting rain, the opening ceremony was spectacular and classy. I didn’t think anyone could outdo the Queen jumping out of a plane with 007, but the French did. I won’t put in too many spoilers for those who will watch it later, but the Minions were one of many highlights.

 

[RooFlyer]

Did they really raise the Olympic flag upside down?

 

[Pushka]

Did they really raise the Olympic flag upside down?

Seems to have been. I missed it. Maybe the secret dude carrying it was actually intent on sabotage.

 

[Tiki]

I'm shocked at how many tickets are still available, even the women's gold medal football match!

https://tickets.paris2024.org/en/search/?affiliate=24R&page=3&cityNames=Paris

I'm looking forward to Brissie 2032!

 

[RooFlyer]

Well, having watched it now I think a lot of it was kind of weird. That said, I think foreigners who watched the Sydney Olympic games opening ceremony might have thought the same. But being a made for TV event rather than being in a stadium, I think definitely detracted from it.

I’ll laughed out loud when ABC broadcasters described the thing carrying the Olympic cauldron a “balloon like structure”. Never heard of the Montgolfier brothers, obviously.

And some buffoon on channel 9 talking over the top of the French National anthem

Can anyone tell me why retired Canadian singer Céline Dion had such a prominent part in the ceremony?

 

[moa999]

Interesting that Australia only had about 80 of some 430 athletes on the boat.. whereas the US looked to have a lot more (team of 600).

Watched the highlights package on 9Now.

 

[Pushka]

Well, having watched it now I think a lot of it was kind of weird. That said, I think foreigners who watched the Sydney Olympic games opening ceremony might have thought the same. But being a made for TV event rather than being in a stadium, I think definitely detracted from it.

I’ll laughed out loud when ABC broadcasters described the thing carrying the Olympic cauldron a “balloon like structure”. Never heard of the Montgolfier brothers, obviously.

And some buffoon on channel 9 talking over the top of the French National anthem

Can anyone tell me why retired Canadian singer Céline Dion had such a prominent part in the ceremony?

Celine is French Canadian and her first language is French. Her name? Céline Marie Claudette Dion. Tres Francaise.

She has not performed since 2019 because of her health issues. This was her first appearance in years as her voice started to return.

She wrote her first music and performed only in French until she broke into the US market in the 1990's. We went to her Melbourne concert maybe in 2018-2019. We flew to Melbourne just to see her. She performed some of her songs in French even then. She often sang in French in duets with Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli and the like.

What made me was the stupid 9 person say how well she sang in French. Do your research hey before talking on TV.

 

[RooFlyer]

Celine is French Canadian and her first language is French. Her name? Céline Marie Claudette Dion. Tres Francaise.

Sure, and I know how accomplished and well-known she is but she still Canadian. You would think the French would want all the headline acts to be French, not French-Canadian.

Bring back Edith Piaf! ( Well, they managed Marie Antoinette!)

But then they also had American and Spanish athletes in prominent positions in the torch relay so I guess the French were just trying to be less typically French .

I would’ve loved to have seen Kathy Freeman hand over the torch to Marie Jose Perec

 

[Pushka]

Sure, and I know how accomplished and well-known she is but she still Canadian. You would think the French would want all the headline acts to be French, not French-Canadian.

Bring back Edith Piaf! ( Well, they managed Marie Antoinette!)

But then they also had American and Spanish athletes in prominent positions in the torch relay so I guess the French were just trying to be less typically French .

I would’ve loved to have seen Kathy Freeman hand over the torch to Marie Jose Perec

Well I reckon the French knew what they were doing when selecting her. People have criticised the Ceremony but have not heard one criticism of her.

The Barcelona Olympics used Sarah Brightman and that was spectacular.

 

[bamboo tree]

Having volunteered for Sydney 2000 and Melbourne Comm Games 2006 (where I was also in the Closing Ceremony) will certainly watch Opening and Closing ceremonies......but not live at 2.30am tomorrow
Also a local girl is in the boxing, so will watch that.

Watching the opening ceremony I did have a feeling it would be cool to be involved in some way in an Olympics one time.

 

[bamboo tree]

Celine is French Canadian and her first language is French. Her name? Céline Marie Claudette Dion. Tres Francaise.

She has not performed since 2019 because of her health issues. This was her first appearance in years as her voice started to return.

She wrote her first music and performed only in French until she broke into the US market in the 1990's. We went to her Melbourne concert maybe in 2018-2019. We flew to Melbourne just to see her. She performed some of her songs in French even then. She often sang in French in duets with Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli and the like.

What made me was the stupid 9 person say how well she sang in French. Do your research hey before talking on TV.

Who were the Channel 9 commentators? I recognised Todd Woodbridge, was one of the others Karl Stefanovic?

 

[Pushka]

Who were the Channel 9 commentators? I recognised Todd Woodbridge, was one of the others Karl Stefanovic?

Yes. And Sarah Abo. I read even Scott Cam and maybe even Sophie Monk. . I don't follow channel 9 at all but no choice. Might flick to Stan.

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Watching the opening ceremony I did have a feeling it would be cool to be involved in some way in an Olympics one time.

It certainly is.

 

[Denali]

......Can anyone tell me why retired Canadian singer Céline Dion had such a prominent part in the ceremony?

I figured its because shes French canadian but for Lady Gaga and Snoop Dog carrying the flame.... no idea.

I think the opening is like my terminal transfers at CDG airport many years ago, it could be done so much better but if something can be made painful or long, the French will figure out how to do it for funsies